Emulating the tradition of Christian mystical poetry, BITCH/BITCH is a series of 10 poems, religious revelations written from and informed by the perspective (or positionality) of a sexually androgynous Catholic woman. In this way, the series explores how systems of belief are affected by positionality, and are ultimately mediated by a larger ideological superstructure. Though interested in the overall ideological context, the principal focus of BITCH/BITCH is gendered oppression, vis a vis the stigmatization of gender non-conformity, ritualized humiliation, the sex industry, internalized misogyny, and biological control. The poetry intentionally evokes conceptual oxymorons to this end, by way of parallelism and juxtaposition: erotic language coincides with religious concepts; natural and pastoral symbols are conflated with the technological; saints parallel commodities. Traditional poetry/memoir (e.g. George Herbert, St. John of the Cross, Julian of Norwich) is used to inform more radicalized ideas (e.g. Christ as gender non-conforming, a la Norwich’s Christ as mother). Overall, it addresses religious pathology: women are more readily barred from the religious/mystical narrative, not only on the institutional level, but psychosocially, vis a vis the social experience of exploitation and oppression. The work seeks to reconcile religious poetry with this experience, and challenge the notion of who is entitled to narrate.